Introduction

intertwining consciousness, human body and the environment

1-13

Human posture and the nightly sky

cosmos in prehistoric myth

17-31

The north, axis mundi and gender myths in the rise of civic space

33-49

Winter acumen and mood disorder

Apollo, Dionysus and Foucault's history of madness

51-65

Hero under the weather

mood disorder and the emergence of civic space

67-79

Psychocultural aspects of weather and place

the little ice age

81-90

Sky myths and gender projection in early city-form

93-101

The north and paradigms of balance

harmony and equilibrium as an urban ideal

103-116

Axial age civilizations as a project of north-hemispheric masculinity

the antipodean myth

117-125

Philosophical urbanism from Thomas More to Walter Benjamin

127-137

The lia

prelude and aftermath, from the garden to city without streets

141-154

From cartesian doubt to heroic design

the late lia and the myth of the grand designer

155-168

The late lia and its urban sequel

reason, mental illness and the emergence of crowd

169-179

Reflections on the lia

loss of place and the north American Winter-city

183-199

Epilogue

Herbert Spiegelberg

201-210